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2021-10-18blk-mq: Stop using pointers for blk_mq_tags bitmap tagsJohn Garry1-2/+2
Now that we use shared tags for shared sbitmap support, we don't require the tags sbitmap pointers, so drop them. This essentially reverts commit 222a5ae03cdd ("blk-mq: Use pointers for blk_mq_tags bitmap tags"). Function blk_mq_init_bitmap_tags() is removed also, since it would be only a wrappper for blk_mq_init_bitmaps(). Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1633429419-228500-14-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-10-18block: move elevator.h to block/Christoph Hellwig1-1/+1
Except for the features passed to blk_queue_required_elevator_features, elevator.h is only needed internally to the block layer. Move the ELEVATOR_F_* definitions to blkdev.h, and the move elevator.h to block/, dropping all the spurious includes outside of that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920123328.1399408-13-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-09-28Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"Jens Axboe1-13/+3
This reverts commit 2d52c58b9c9bdae0ca3df6a1eab5745ab3f7d80b. We have had several folks complain that this causes hangs for them, which is especially problematic as the commit has also hit stable already. As no resolution seems to be forthcoming right now, revert the patch. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214503 Fixes: 2d52c58b9c9b ("block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-09-02block, bfq: honor already-setup queue mergesPaolo Valente1-3/+13
The function bfq_setup_merge prepares the merging between two bfq_queues, say bfqq and new_bfqq. To this goal, it assigns bfqq->new_bfqq = new_bfqq. Then, each time some I/O for bfqq arrives, the process that generated that I/O is disassociated from bfqq and associated with new_bfqq (merging is actually a redirection). In this respect, bfq_setup_merge increases new_bfqq->ref in advance, adding the number of processes that are expected to be associated with new_bfqq. Unfortunately, the stable-merging mechanism interferes with this setup. After bfqq->new_bfqq has been set by bfq_setup_merge, and before all the expected processes have been associated with bfqq->new_bfqq, bfqq may happen to be stably merged with a different queue than the current bfqq->new_bfqq. In this case, bfqq->new_bfqq gets changed. So, some of the processes that have been already accounted for in the ref counter of the previous new_bfqq will not be associated with that queue. This creates an unbalance, because those references will never be decremented. This commit fixes this issue by reestablishing the previous, natural behaviour: once bfqq->new_bfqq has been set, it will not be changed until all expected redirections have occurred. Signed-off-by: Davide Zini <davidezini2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802141352.74353-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-23block: add an explicit ->disk backpointer to the request_queueChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
Replace the magic lookup through the kobject tree with an explicit backpointer, given that the device model links are set up and torn down at times when I/O is still possible, leading to potential NULL or invalid pointer dereferences. Fixes: edb0872f44ec ("block: move the bdi from the request_queue to the gendisk") Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+aa0801b6b32dca9dda82@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816134624.GA24234@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-18block: fix default IO priority handlingDamien Le Moal1-1/+1
The default IO priority is the best effort (BE) class with the normal priority level IOPRIO_NORM (4). However, get_task_ioprio() returns IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE/IOPRIO_NORM as the default priority and get_current_ioprio() returns IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE/0. Let's be consistent with the defined default and have both of these functions return the default priority IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_NORM) when the user did not define another default IO priority for the task. In include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h, introduce the IOPRIO_BE_NORM macro as an alias to IOPRIO_NORM to clarify that this default level applies to the BE priotity class. In include/linux/ioprio.h, define the macro IOPRIO_DEFAULT as IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_BE_NORM) and use this new macro when setting a priority to the default. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-7-damien.lemoal@wdc.com [axboe: drop unnecessary lightnvm change] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-18block: Introduce IOPRIO_NR_LEVELSDamien Le Moal1-4/+4
The BFQ scheduler and ioprio_check_cap() both assume that the RT priority class (IOPRIO_CLASS_RT) can have up to 8 different priority levels, similarly to the BE class (IOPRIO_CLASS_iBE). This is controlled using the IOPRIO_BE_NR macro , which is badly named as the number of levels also applies to the RT class. Introduce the class independent IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS macro, defined to 8, to make things clear. Keep the old IOPRIO_BE_NR macro definition as an alias for IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-6-damien.lemoal@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-18block: bfq: fix bfq_set_next_ioprio_data()Damien Le Moal1-1/+1
For a request that has a priority level equal to or larger than IOPRIO_BE_NR, bfq_set_next_ioprio_data() prints a critical warning but defaults to setting the request new_ioprio field to IOPRIO_BE_NR. This is not consistent with the warning and the allowed values for priority levels. Fix this by setting the request new_ioprio field to IOPRIO_BE_NR - 1, the lowest priority level allowed. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: aee69d78dec0 ("block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler") Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-2-damien.lemoal@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-09block: return ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE if possibleMing Lei1-0/+3
When merging one bio to request, if they are discard IO and the queue supports multi-range discard, we need to return ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE because both block core and related drivers(nvme, virtio-blk) doesn't handle mixed discard io merge(traditional IO merge together with discard merge) well. Fix the issue by returning ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE in this situation, so both blk-mq and drivers just need to handle multi-range discard. Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Fixes: 2705dfb20947 ("block: fix discard request merge") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729034226.1591070-1-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-08-09block: move the bdi from the request_queue to the gendiskChristoph Hellwig1-2/+2
The backing device information only makes sense for file system I/O, and thus belongs into the gendisk and not the lower level request_queue structure. Move it there. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809141744.1203023-5-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-24blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lockJan Kara1-2/+4
Lockdep complains about lock inversion between ioc->lock and bfqd->lock: bfqd -> ioc: put_io_context+0x33/0x90 -> ioc->lock grabbed blk_mq_free_request+0x51/0x140 blk_put_request+0xe/0x10 blk_attempt_req_merge+0x1d/0x30 elv_attempt_insert_merge+0x56/0xa0 blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge+0x4b/0x60 bfq_insert_requests+0x9e/0x18c0 -> bfqd->lock grabbed blk_mq_sched_insert_requests+0xd6/0x2b0 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x154/0x280 blk_finish_plug+0x40/0x60 ext4_writepages+0x696/0x1320 do_writepages+0x1c/0x80 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xd7/0x120 sync_file_range+0xac/0xf0 ioc->bfqd: bfq_exit_icq+0xa3/0xe0 -> bfqd->lock grabbed put_io_context_active+0x78/0xb0 -> ioc->lock grabbed exit_io_context+0x48/0x50 do_exit+0x7e9/0xdd0 do_group_exit+0x54/0xc0 To avoid this inversion we change blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge() to not free the merged request but rather leave that upto the caller similarly to blk_mq_sched_try_merge(). And in bfq_insert_requests() we make sure to free all the merged requests after dropping bfqd->lock. Fixes: aee69d78dec0 ("block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler") Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623093634.27879-3-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-24bfq: Remove merged request already in bfq_requests_merged()Jan Kara1-28/+13
Currently, bfq does very little in bfq_requests_merged() and handles all the request cleanup in bfq_finish_requeue_request() called from blk_mq_free_request(). That is currently safe only because blk_mq_free_request() is called shortly after bfq_requests_merged() while bfqd->lock is still held. However to fix a lock inversion between bfqd->lock and ioc->lock, we need to call blk_mq_free_request() after dropping bfqd->lock. That would mean that already merged request could be seen by other processes inside bfq queues and possibly dispatched to the device which is wrong. So move cleanup of the request from bfq_finish_requeue_request() to bfq_requests_merged(). Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623093634.27879-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: reset waker pointer with shared queuesPaolo Valente1-2/+4
Commit 85686d0dc194 ("block, bfq: keep shared queues out of the waker mechanism") leaves shared bfq_queues out of the waker-detection mechanism. It attains this goal by not updating the pointer last_completed_rq_bfqq, if the last request completed belongs to a shared bfq_queue (so that the pointer will not point to the shared bfq_queue). Yet this has a side effect: the pointer last_completed_rq_bfqq keeps pointing, deceptively, to a bfq_queue that actually is not the last one to have had a request completed. As a consequence, such a bfq_queue may deceptively be considered as a waker of some bfq_queue, even of some shared bfq_queue. To address this issue, reset last_completed_rq_bfqq if the last request completed belongs to a shared queue. Fixes: 85686d0dc194 ("block, bfq: keep shared queues out of the waker mechanism") Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-8-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: check waker only for queues with no in-flight I/OPaolo Valente1-8/+13
Consider two bfq_queues, say Q1 and Q2, with Q2 empty. If a request of Q1 gets completed shortly before a new request arrives for Q2, then BFQ flags Q1 as a candidate waker for Q2. Yet, the arrival of this new request may have a different cause, in the following case. If also Q2 has requests in flight while waiting for the arrival of a new request, then the completion of its own requests may be the actual cause of the awakening of the process that sends I/O to Q2. So Q1 may be flagged wrongly as a candidate waker. This commit avoids this deceptive flagging, by disabling candidate-waker flagging for Q2, if Q2 has in-flight I/O. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-7-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: avoid delayed merge of async queuesPaolo Valente1-1/+7
Since commit 430a67f9d616 ("block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queues"), BFQ may schedule a merge between a newly created sync bfq_queue, say Q2, and the last sync bfq_queue created, say Q1. To this goal, BFQ stores the address of Q1 in the field bic->stable_merge_bfqq of the bic associated with Q2. So, when the time for the possible merge arrives, BFQ knows which bfq_queue to merge Q2 with. In particular, BFQ checks for possible merges on request arrivals. Yet the same bic may also be associated with an async bfq_queue, say Q3. So, if a request for Q3 arrives, then the above check may happen to be executed while the bfq_queue at hand is Q3, instead of Q2. In this case, Q1 happens to be merged with an async bfq_queue. This is not only a conceptual mistake, because async queues are to be kept out of queue merging, but also a bug that leads to inconsistent states. This commits simply filters async queues out of delayed merges. Fixes: 430a67f9d616 ("block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queues") Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-6-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: boost throughput by extending queue-merging timesPietro Pedroni1-3/+13
One of the methods with which bfq boosts throughput is by merging queues. One of the merging variants in bfq is the stable merge. This mechanism is activated between two queues only if they are created within a certain maximum time T1 from each other. Merging can happen soon or be delayed. In the second case, before merging, bfq needs to evaluate a throughput-boost parameter that indicates whether the queue generates a high throughput is served alone. Merging occurs when this throughput-boost is not high enough. In particular, this parameter is evaluated and late merging may occur only after at least a time T2 from the creation of the queue. Currently T1 and T2 are set to 180ms and 200ms, respectively. In this way the merging mechanism rarely occurs because time is not enough. This results in a noticeable lowering of the overall throughput with some workloads (see the example below). This commit introduces two constants bfq_activation_stable_merging and bfq_late_stable_merging in order to increase the duration of T1 and T2. Both the stable merging activation time and the late merging time are set to 600ms. This value has been experimentally evaluated using sqlite benchmark in the Phoronix Test Suite on a HDD. The duration of the benchmark before this fix was 111.02s, while now it has reached 97.02s, a better result than that of all the other schedulers. Signed-off-by: Pietro Pedroni <pedroni.pietro.96@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-5-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: consider also creation time in delayed stable mergePaolo Valente1-1/+3
Since commit 430a67f9d616 ("block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queues"), BFQ may schedule a merge between a newly created sync bfq_queue and the last sync bfq_queue created. Such a merging is not performed immediately, because BFQ needs first to find out whether the newly created queue actually reaches a higher throughput if not merged at all (and in that case BFQ will not perform any stable merging). To check that, a little time must be waited after the creation of the new queue, so that some I/O can flow in the queue, and statistics on such I/O can be computed. Yet, to evaluate the above waiting time, the last split time is considered as start time, instead of the creation time of the queue. This is a mistake, because considering the split time is correct only in the following scenario. The queue undergoes a non-stable merges on the arrival of its very first I/O request, due to close I/O with some other queue. While the queue is merged for close I/O, stable merging is not considered. Yet the queue may then happen to be split, if the close I/O finishes (or happens to be a false positive). From this time on, the queue can again be considered for stable merging. But, again, a little time must elapse, to let some new I/O flow in the queue and to get updated statistics. To wait for this time, the split time is to be taken into account. Yet, if the queue does not undergo a non-stable merge on the arrival of its very first request, then BFQ immediately checks whether the stable merge is to be performed. It happens because the split time for a queue is initialized to minus infinity when the queue is created. This commit fixes this mistake by adding the missing condition. Now the check for delayed stable-merge is performed after a little time is elapsed not only from the last queue split time, but also from the creation time of the queue. Fixes: 430a67f9d616 ("block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queues") Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-4-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge checkLuca Mariotti1-1/+1
When attempting to schedule a merge of a given bfq_queue with the currently in-service bfq_queue or with a cooperating bfq_queue among the scheduled bfq_queues, delayed stable merge is checked for rotational or non-queueing devs. For this stable merge to be performed, some conditions must be met. If the current bfq_queue underwent some split from some merged bfq_queue, one of these conditions is that two hundred milliseconds must elapse from split, otherwise this condition is always met. Unfortunately, by mistake, time_is_after_jiffies() was written instead of time_is_before_jiffies() for this check, verifying that less than two hundred milliseconds have elapsed instead of verifying that at least two hundred milliseconds have elapsed. Fix this issue by replacing time_is_after_jiffies() with time_is_before_jiffies(). Signed-off-by: Luca Mariotti <mariottiluca1@hotmail.it> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Signed-off-by: Pietro Pedroni <pedroni.pietro.96@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-3-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-06-21block, bfq: let also stably merged queues enjoy weight raisingPaolo Valente1-1/+14
Merged bfq_queues are kept out of weight-raising (low-latency) mechanisms. The reason is that these queues are usually created for non-interactive and non-soft-real-time tasks. Yet this is not the case for stably-merged queues. These queues are merged just because they are created shortly after each other. So they may easily serve the I/O of an interactive or soft-real time application, if the application happens to spawn multiple processes. To address this issue, this commits lets also stably-merged queued enjoy weight raising. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210619140948.98712-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-05-12block, bfq: avoid circular stable mergesPaolo Valente1-2/+29
BFQ may merge a new bfq_queue, stably, with the last bfq_queue created. In particular, BFQ first waits a little bit for some I/O to flow inside the new queue, say Q2, if this is needed to understand whether it is better or worse to merge Q2 with the last queue created, say Q1. This delayed stable merge is performed by assigning bic->stable_merge_bfqq = Q1, for the bic associated with Q1. Yet, while waiting for some I/O to flow in Q2, a non-stable queue merge of Q2 with Q1 may happen, causing the bic previously associated with Q2 to be associated with exactly Q1 (bic->bfqq = Q1). After that, Q2 and Q1 may happen to be split, and, in the split, Q1 may happen to be recycled as a non-shared bfq_queue. In that case, Q1 may then happen to undergo a stable merge with the bfq_queue pointed by bic->stable_merge_bfqq. Yet bic->stable_merge_bfqq still points to Q1. So Q1 would be merged with itself. This commit fixes this error by intercepting this situation, and canceling the schedule of the stable merge. Fixes: 430a67f9d616 ("block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queues") Signed-off-by: Pietro Pedroni <pedroni.pietro.96@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094352.85545-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-05-11kyber: fix out of bounds access when preemptedOmar Sandoval1-2/+1
__blk_mq_sched_bio_merge() gets the ctx and hctx for the current CPU and passes the hctx to ->bio_merge(). kyber_bio_merge() then gets the ctx for the current CPU again and uses that to get the corresponding Kyber context in the passed hctx. However, the thread may be preempted between the two calls to blk_mq_get_ctx(), and the ctx returned the second time may no longer correspond to the passed hctx. This "works" accidentally most of the time, but it can cause us to read garbage if the second ctx came from an hctx with more ctx's than the first one (i.e., if ctx->index_hw[hctx->type] > hctx->nr_ctx). This manifested as this UBSAN array index out of bounds error reported by Jakub: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../kernel/locking/qspinlock.c:130:9 index 13106 is out of range for type 'long unsigned int [128]' Call Trace: dump_stack+0xa4/0xe5 ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold.13+0x2a/0x34 queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x476/0x480 do_raw_spin_lock+0x1c2/0x1d0 kyber_bio_merge+0x112/0x180 blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1f5/0x1100 submit_bio_noacct+0x7b0/0x870 submit_bio+0xc2/0x3a0 btrfs_map_bio+0x4f0/0x9d0 btrfs_submit_data_bio+0x24e/0x310 submit_one_bio+0x7f/0xb0 submit_extent_page+0xc4/0x440 __extent_writepage_io+0x2b8/0x5e0 __extent_writepage+0x28d/0x6e0 extent_write_cache_pages+0x4d7/0x7a0 extent_writepages+0xa2/0x110 do_writepages+0x8f/0x180 __writeback_single_inode+0x99/0x7f0 writeback_sb_inodes+0x34e/0x790 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x9e/0x120 wb_writeback+0x4d2/0x660 wb_workfn+0x64d/0xa10 process_one_work+0x53a/0xa80 worker_thread+0x69/0x5b0 kthread+0x20b/0x240 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Only Kyber uses the hctx, so fix it by passing the request_queue to ->bio_merge() instead. BFQ and mq-deadline just use that, and Kyber can map the queues itself to avoid the mismatch. Fixes: a6088845c2bf ("block: kyber: make kyber more friendly with merging") Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c7598605401a48d5cfeadebb678abd10af22b83f.1620691329.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-04-16bfq/mq-deadline: remove redundant check for passthrough requestLin Feng1-2/+1
Since commit 01e99aeca39796003 'blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx->dispatch directly', passthrough request should not appear in IO-scheduler any more, so blk_rq_is_passthrough checking in addon IO schedulers is redundant. (Notes: this patch passes generic IO load test with hdds under SAS controller and hdds under AHCI controller but obviously not covers all. Not sure if passthrough request can still escape into IO scheduler from blk_mq_sched_insert_requests, which is used by blk_mq_flush_plug_list and has lots of indirect callers.) Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: merge bursts of newly-created queuesPaolo Valente1-10/+249
Many throughput-sensitive workloads are made of several parallel I/O flows, with all flows generated by the same application, or more generically by the same task (e.g., system boot). The most counterproductive action with these workloads is plugging I/O dispatch when one of the bfq_queues associated with these flows remains temporarily empty. To avoid this plugging, BFQ has been using a burst-handling mechanism for years now. This mechanism has proven effective for throughput, and not detrimental for service guarantees. This commit pushes this mechanism a little bit further, basing on the following two facts. First, all the I/O flows of a the same application or task contribute to the execution/completion of that common application or task. So the performance figures that matter are total throughput of the flows and task-wide I/O latency. In particular, these flows do not need to be protected from each other, in terms of individual bandwidth or latency. Second, the above fact holds regardless of the number of flows. Putting these two facts together, this commits merges stably the bfq_queues associated with these I/O flows, i.e., with the processes that generate these IO/ flows, regardless of how many the involved processes are. To decide whether a set of bfq_queues is actually associated with the I/O flows of a common application or task, and to merge these queues stably, this commit operates as follows: given a bfq_queue, say Q2, currently being created, and the last bfq_queue, say Q1, created before Q2, Q2 is merged stably with Q1 if - very little time has elapsed since when Q1 was created - Q2 has the same ioprio as Q1 - Q2 belongs to the same group as Q1 Merging bfq_queues also reduces scheduling overhead. A fio test with ten random readers on /dev/nullb shows a throughput boost of 40%, with a quadcore. Since BFQ's execution time amounts to ~50% of the total per-request processing time, the above throughput boost implies that BFQ's overhead is reduced by more than 50%. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-7-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: keep shared queues out of the waker mechanismPaolo Valente1-1/+11
Shared queues are likely to receive I/O at a high rate. This may deceptively let them be considered as wakers of other queues. But a false waker will unjustly steal bandwidth to its supposedly woken queue. So considering also shared queues in the waking mechanism may cause more control troubles than throughput benefits. This commit keeps shared queues out of the waker-detection mechanism. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-6-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: fix weight-raising resume with !low_latencyPaolo Valente1-2/+8
When the io_latency heuristic is off, bfq_queues must not start to be weight-raised. Unfortunately, by mistake, this may happen when the state of a previously weight-raised bfq_queue is resumed after a queue split. This commit fixes this error. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-5-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: make shared queues inherit wakersPaolo Valente1-3/+39
Consider a bfq_queue bfqq that is about to be merged with another bfq_queue new_bfqq. The processes associated with bfqq are cooperators of the processes associated with new_bfqq. So, if bfqq has a waker, then it is reasonable (and beneficial for throughput) to assume that all these processes will be happy to let bfqq's waker freely inject I/O when they have no I/O. So this commit makes new_bfqq inherit bfqq's waker. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-4-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: put reqs of waker and woken in dispatch listPaolo Valente1-1/+43
Consider a new I/O request that arrives for a bfq_queue bfqq. If, when this happens, the only active bfq_queues are bfqq and either its waker bfq_queue or one of its woken bfq_queues, then there is no point in queueing this new I/O request in bfqq for service. In fact, the in-service queue and bfqq agree on serving this new I/O request as soon as possible. So this commit puts this new I/O request directly into the dispatch list. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-3-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-25block, bfq: always inject I/O of queues blocked by wakersPaolo Valente1-5/+27
Suppose that I/O dispatch is plugged, to wait for new I/O for the in-service bfq-queue, say bfqq. Suppose then that there is a further bfq_queue woken by bfqq, and that this woken queue has pending I/O. A woken queue does not steal bandwidth from bfqq, because it remains soon without I/O if bfqq is not served. So there is virtually no risk of loss of bandwidth for bfqq if this woken queue has I/O dispatched while bfqq is waiting for new I/O. In contrast, this extra I/O injection boosts throughput. This commit performs this extra injection. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304174627.161-2-paolo.valente@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-03-02block/bfq: update comments and default value in docs for fifo_expireJoseph Qi1-1/+1
Correct the comments since bfq_fifo_expire[0] is for async request, while bfq_fifo_expire[1] is for sync request. Also update docs, according the source code, the default fifo_expire_async is 250ms, and fifo_expire_sync is 125ms. Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-02-22block: get rid of the trace rq insert wrapperChaitanya Kulkarni1-1/+3
Get rid of the wrapper for trace_block_rq_insert() and call the function directly. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-02-21Merge tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-169/+276
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe: "Another nice round of removing more code than what is added, mostly due to Christoph's relentless pursuit of tech debt removal/cleanups. This pull request contains: - Two series of BFQ improvements (Paolo, Jan, Jia) - Block iov_iter improvements (Pavel) - bsg error path fix (Pan) - blk-mq scheduler improvements (Jan) - -EBUSY discard fix (Jan) - bvec allocation improvements (Ming, Christoph) - bio allocation and init improvements (Christoph) - Store bdev pointer in bio instead of gendisk + partno (Christoph) - Block trace point cleanups (Christoph) - hard read-only vs read-only split (Christoph) - Block based swap cleanups (Christoph) - Zoned write granularity support (Damien) - Various fixes/tweaks (Chunguang, Guoqing, Lei, Lukas, Huhai)" * tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (104 commits) mm: simplify swapdev_block sd_zbc: clear zone resources for non-zoned case block: introduce blk_queue_clear_zone_settings() zonefs: use zone write granularity as block size block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit block: use blk_queue_set_zoned in add_partition() nullb: use blk_queue_set_zoned() to setup zoned devices nvme: cleanup zone information initialization block: document zone_append_max_bytes attribute block: use bi_max_vecs to find the bvec pool md/raid10: remove dead code in reshape_request block: mark the bio as cloned in bio_iov_bvec_set block: set BIO_NO_PAGE_REF in bio_iov_bvec_set block: remove a layer of indentation in bio_iov_iter_get_pages block: turn the nr_iovecs argument to bio_alloc* into an unsigned short block: remove the 1 and 4 vec bvec_slabs entries block: streamline bvec_alloc block: factor out a bvec_alloc_gfp helper block: move struct biovec_slab to bio.c block: reuse BIO_INLINE_VECS for integrity bvecs ...
2021-02-02bfq-iosched: Revert "bfq: Fix computation of shallow depth"Lin Feng1-4/+4
This reverts commit 6d4d273588378c65915acaf7b2ee74e9dd9c130a. bfq.limit_depth passes word_depths[] as shallow_depth down to sbitmap core sbitmap_get_shallow, which uses just the number to limit the scan depth of each bitmap word, formula: scan_percentage_for_each_word = shallow_depth / (1 << sbimap->shift) * 100% That means the comments's percentiles 50%, 75%, 18%, 37% of bfq are correct. But after commit patch 'bfq: Fix computation of shallow depth', we use sbitmap.depth instead, as a example in following case: sbitmap.depth = 256, map_nr = 4, shift = 6; sbitmap_word.depth = 64. The resulsts of computed bfqd->word_depths[] are {128, 192, 48, 96}, and three of the numbers exceed core dirver's 'sbitmap_word.depth=64' limit nothing. Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-27bfq: Use only idle IO periods for think time calculationsJan Kara1-1/+9
Currently whenever bfq queue has a request queued we add now - last_completion_time to the think time statistics. This is however misleading in case the process is able to submit several requests in parallel because e.g. if the queue has request completed at time T0 and then queues new requests at times T1, T2, then we will add T1-T0 and T2-T0 to think time statistics which just doesn't make any sence (the queue's think time is penalized by the queue being able to submit more IO). So add to think time statistics only time intervals when the queue had no IO pending. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> [axboe: fix whitespace on empty line] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-27bfq: Use 'ttime' local variableJan Kara1-1/+1
Use local variable 'ttime' instead of dereferencing bfqq. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-27bfq: Avoid false bfq queue mergingJan Kara1-0/+1
bfq_setup_cooperator() uses bfqd->in_serv_last_pos so detect whether it makes sense to merge current bfq queue with the in-service queue. However if the in-service queue is freshly scheduled and didn't dispatch any requests yet, bfqd->in_serv_last_pos is stale and contains value from the previously scheduled bfq queue which can thus result in a bogus decision that the two queues should be merged. This bug can be observed for example with the following fio jobfile: [global] direct=0 ioengine=sync invalidate=1 size=1g rw=read [reader] numjobs=4 directory=/mnt where the 4 processes will end up in the one shared bfq queue although they do IO to physically very distant files (for some reason I was able to observe this only with slice_idle=1ms setting). Fix the problem by invalidating bfqd->in_serv_last_pos when switching in-service queue. Fixes: 058fdecc6de7 ("block, bfq: fix in-service-queue check for queue merging") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25bfq: bfq_check_waker() should be staticJens Axboe1-1/+2
It's only used in the same file, mark is appropriately static. Fixes: 71217df39dc6 ("block, bfq: make waker-queue detection more robust") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: make waker-queue detection more robustPaolo Valente1-108/+103
In the presence of many parallel I/O flows, the detection of waker bfq_queues suffers from false positives. This commits addresses this issue by making the filtering of actual wakers more selective. In more detail, a candidate waker must be found to meet waker requirements three times before being promoted to actual waker. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: save also injection state on queue mergingPaolo Valente1-0/+8
To prevent injection information from being lost on bfq_queue merging, also the amount of service that a bfq_queue receives must be saved and restored when the bfq_queue is merged and split, respectively. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: save also weight-raised service on queue mergingPaolo Valente1-0/+2
To prevent weight-raising information from being lost on bfq_queue merging, also the amount of service that a bfq_queue receives must be saved and restored when the bfq_queue is merged and split, respectively. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: fix switch back from soft-rt weitgh-raisingPaolo Valente1-2/+20
A bfq_queue may happen to be deemed as soft real-time while it is still enjoying interactive weight-raising. If this happens because of a false positive, then the bfq_queue is likely to loose its soft real-time status soon. Upon losing such a status, the bfq_queue must get back its interactive weight-raising, if its interactive period is not over yet. But this case is not handled. This commit corrects this error. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: re-evaluate convenience of I/O plugging on rq arrivalsPaolo Valente1-5/+19
Upon an I/O-dispatch attempt, BFQ may detect that it was better to plug I/O dispatch, and to wait for a new request to arrive for the currently in-service queue. But the arrival of a new request for an empty bfq_queue, and thus the switch from idle to busy of the bfq_queue, may cause the scenario to change, and make plugging no longer needed for service guarantees, or more convenient for throughput. In this case, keeping I/O-dispatch plugged would certainly lower throughput. To address this issue, this commit makes such a check, and stops plugging I/O if it is better to stop plugging I/O. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-25block, bfq: replace mechanism for evaluating I/O intensityPaolo Valente1-19/+44
Some BFQ mechanisms make their decisions on a bfq_queue basing also on whether the bfq_queue is I/O bound. In this respect, the current logic for evaluating whether a bfq_queue is I/O bound is rather rough. This commits replaces this logic with a more effective one. The new logic measures the percentage of time during which a bfq_queue is active, and marks the bfq_queue as I/O bound if the latter if this percentage is above a fixed threshold. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24Revert "blk-mq, elevator: Count requests per hctx to improve performance"Jan Kara1-5/+0
This reverts commit b445547ec1bbd3e7bf4b1c142550942f70527d95. Since both mq-deadline and BFQ completely ignore hctx they are passed to their dispatch function and dispatch whatever request they deem fit checking whether any request for a particular hctx is queued is just pointless since we'll very likely get a request from a different hctx anyway. In the following commit we'll deal with lock contention in these IO schedulers in presence of multiple HW queues in a different way. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: do not expire a queue when it is the only busy onePaolo Valente1-2/+20
This commits preserves I/O-dispatch plugging for a special symmetric case that may suddenly turn into asymmetric: the case where only one bfq_queue, say bfqq, is busy. In this case, not expiring bfqq does not cause any harm to any other queues in terms of service guarantees. In contrast, it avoids the following unlucky sequence of events: (1) bfqq is expired, (2) a new queue with a lower weight than bfqq becomes busy (or more queues), (3) the new queue is served until a new request arrives for bfqq, (4) when bfqq is finally served, there are so many requests of the new queue in the drive that the pending requests for bfqq take a lot of time to be served. In particular, event (2) may case even already dispatched requests of bfqq to be delayed, inside the drive. So, to avoid this series of events, the scenario is preventively declared as asymmetric also if bfqq is the only busy queues. By doing so, I/O-dispatch plugging is performed for bfqq. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: avoid spurious switches to soft_rt of interactive queuesPaolo Valente1-20/+37
BFQ tags some bfq_queues as interactive or soft_rt if it deems that these bfq_queues contain the I/O of, respectively, interactive or soft real-time applications. BFQ privileges both these special types of bfq_queues over normal bfq_queues. To privilege a bfq_queue, BFQ mainly raises the weight of the bfq_queue. In particular, soft_rt bfq_queues get a higher weight than interactive bfq_queues. A bfq_queue may turn from interactive to soft_rt. And this leads to a tricky issue. Soft real-time applications usually start with an I/O-bound, interactive phase, in which they load themselves into main memory. BFQ correctly detects this phase, and keeps the bfq_queues associated with the application in interactive mode for a while. Problems arise when the I/O pattern of the application finally switches to soft real-time. One of the conditions for a bfq_queue to be deemed as soft_rt is that the bfq_queue does not consume too much bandwidth. But the bfq_queues associated with a soft real-time application consume as much bandwidth as they can in the loading phase of the application. So, after the application becomes truly soft real-time, a lot of time should pass before the average bandwidth consumed by its bfq_queues finally drops to a value acceptable for soft_rt bfq_queues. As a consequence, there might be a time gap during which the application is not privileged at all, because its bfq_queues are not interactive any longer, but cannot be deemed as soft_rt yet. To avoid this problem, BFQ pretends that an interactive bfq_queue consumes zero bandwidth, and allows an interactive bfq_queue to switch to soft_rt. Yet, this fake zero-bandwidth consumption easily causes the bfq_queue to often switch to soft_rt deceptively, during its loading phase. As in soft_rt mode, the bfq_queue gets its bandwidth correctly computed, and therefore soon switches back to interactive. Then it switches again to soft_rt, and so on. These spurious fluctuations usually cause losses of throughput, because they deceive BFQ's mechanisms for boosting throughput (injection, I/O-plugging avoidance, ...). This commit addresses this issue as follows: 1) It does compute actual bandwidth consumption also for interactive bfq_queues. This avoids the above false positives. 2) When a bfq_queue switches from interactive to normal mode, the consumed bandwidth is reset (forgotten). This allows the bfq_queue to enjoy soft_rt very quickly. In particular, two alternatives are possible in this switch: - the bfq_queue still has backlog, and therefore there is a budget already scheduled to serve the bfq_queue; in this case, the scheduling of the current budget of the bfq_queue is not hindered, because only the scheduling of the next budget will be affected by the weight drop. After that, if the bfq_queue is actually in a soft_rt phase, and becomes empty during the service of its current budget, which is the natural behavior of a soft_rt bfq_queue, then the bfq_queue will be considered as soft_rt when its next I/O arrives. If, in contrast, the bfq_queue remains constantly non-empty, then its next budget will be scheduled with a low weight, which is the natural treatment for an I/O-bound (non soft_rt) bfq_queue. - the bfq_queue is empty; in this case, the bfq_queue may be considered unjustly soft_rt when its new I/O arrives. Yet the problem is now much smaller than before, because it is unlikely that more than one spurious fluctuation occurs. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: do not raise non-default weightsPaolo Valente1-3/+7
BFQ heuristics try to detect interactive I/O, and raise the weight of the queues containing such an I/O. Yet, if also the user changes the weight of a queue (i.e., the user changes the ioprio of the process associated with that queue), then it is most likely better to prevent BFQ heuristics from silently changing the same weight. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: increase time window for waker detectionPaolo Valente1-1/+1
Tests on slower machines showed current window to be way too small. This commit increases it. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: set next_rq to waker_bfqq->next_rq in waker injectionJia Cheng Hu1-1/+1
Since commit c5089591c3ba ("block, bfq: detect wakers and unconditionally inject their I/O"), when the in-service bfq_queue, say Q, is temporarily empty, BFQ checks whether there are I/O requests to inject (also) from the waker bfq_queue for Q. To this goal, the value pointed by bfqq->waker_bfqq->next_rq must be controlled. However, the current implementation mistakenly looks at bfqq->next_rq, which instead points to the next request of the currently served queue. This mistake evidently causes losses of throughput in scenarios with waker bfq_queues. This commit corrects this mistake. Fixes: c5089591c3ba ("block, bfq: detect wakers and unconditionally inject their I/O") Signed-off-by: Jia Cheng Hu <jia.jiachenghu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-24block, bfq: use half slice_idle as a threshold to check short ttimePaolo Valente1-3/+4
The value of the I/O plugging (idling) timeout is used also as the think-time threshold to decide whether a process has a short think time. In this respect, a good value of this timeout for rotational drives is un the order of several ms. Yet, this is often too long a time interval to be effective as a think-time threshold. This commit mitigates this problem (by a lot, according to tests), by halving the threshold. Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-01-05bfq: Fix computation of shallow depthJan Kara1-4/+4
BFQ computes number of tags it allows to be allocated for each request type based on tag bitmap. However it uses 1 << bitmap.shift as number of available tags which is wrong. 'shift' is just an internal bitmap value containing logarithm of how many bits bitmap uses in each bitmap word. Thus number of tags allowed for some request types can be far to low. Use proper bitmap.depth which has the number of tags instead. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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